File permissions

[chris86wm]

Is there a way to change the file permissions of the downloaded files from Deluge?
I have Deluge download to a directory that is accessible over my network, and I wish to delete a file from that folder from another computer over the network. Currently, Deluge tells me that I do no have permission to do so. Is there anyway that I can correct this?

[chris86wm]

Any ideas? I'm having to chmod 777 the entire download directory to allow my other machines to modify the files.

[johnnyg]

You could try using the execute plugin?

[andar]

You could set an appropriate umask for the user running deluge.

[johnnyg]

Actually, I recently discovered that start-stop-daemon has a nice --umask option

[chris86wm]

Would either of you care to elaborate on the umask option? I cant seem to figure it out

[johnnyg]

When a file/folder is created, its permissions are worked out by

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<permissions> & ~<umask>

where '&' is 'bitwise and', '~' is 'bitwise not' and both <permissions> and <umask> are octal values.

By default, your umask is 022
so when you create a file

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0666 & ~022 = 0644

you get 644 (rw-r--r--) as permissions for that file.
and when you create a directory

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0777 & ~022 = 0755

you get 755 (rwxr-xr-x) as permissions for that folder.

You can read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umask.

Changing your umask to 0 will effectively be the same as chmodding every folder as 777 and every file as 666.

[Cas]

Actually, I recently discovered that start-stop-daemon has a nice --umask option

Thanks, can't believe that option has been there all this time!! Goes to show my old boss' comments about checking the man pages are true

I simply created a 'UMASK=000' variable to the top on my init script and then added '--umask $UMASK' for the two deluged start commands.

Could you update the sites ubuntu init script with this?

[chris86wm]

Are you adding the --umask somewhere in here?

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start-stop-daemon --start --background --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE1 --exec $DAEMON1 \

[johnnyg]

Could you update the sites ubuntu init script with this?

Done.

Are you adding the --umask somewhere in here?

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start-stop-daemon --start --background --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE1 --exec $DAEMON1 \

You can add it in there, sure.
Otherwise just grab the initscript again: http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/User ... InitScript